THIS IS OUR PLAN OF THE DESIGN OF THE FIRE RESISTAINT CLOTHES. There are more images in my folder Lilly B l4c in UOI
Lilly B's Information report. Bushfires How fires operate Depending on the weather, fires can spread more easily. Winds and low humidity increase chances of spreading. Winds can carry burning embers that start new fires, known as sport fires. Because fires and unpredictable and change very rapidly there is a thing called the fire triangle. The fire tri-angle is the three things needed to start a fire. A fire needs fuel such as trees, oxygen from air and heat.
How we fight fires Fire fighters use a variety of equipment to control fires; the equipment could be anything, from backpack water sprayers to helicopters. Many places use different things like fire prevention items such as firebreaks. Equipment like sprayers put out spot fires, but large fires are attempted to be put out with large tankers, holding up to 4000 litres of water. Big fires are also put out by planes and helicopters bombing the fire with water, and occasionally chemicals are mixed with water to help slow down the fire.
Fires cause a lot of damage to human and animal communities. Surprisingly there benefits too, but there are a lot of bad things that fires cause, such as: Breathing difficulties Destroyed buildings, homes, farms and more Fires can cost a lot of money. A big fire storm kills huge amounts of vegetation and wildlife living there. Some of these will not recover. Many animals die in fires, either from the smoke or the heat. But the benefits of fires are: Many Australian plants are adapted to fire, having seeds that only germinate to fire. Most areas will regerminate after a fire.
Tips and tricks To protect your home from fire you can do a few things like: Move flammable items away from your house, such as petrol containers. Keep your lawns mowed Take anything like leaves and sticks away from eaves gutters and decks. Check all hoses and taps are working. To protect yourself: Try to wear clothes that cover as much skin as possible Wear natural fibres’ such as cotton denim as it burns less easily. Wear a hat Drink plenty of water
Tropical cyclones are the most destructive storms in the world; they cause floods, loss of resources, dirty water, and wrecked buildings and most importantly loss of lives.
What is a Tropical Cyclone? Tropical cyclones are made up from torrential rains and winds swirling around the centre of the cyclone, which is called the eye, at about 300km/h. All cyclones have different names it just depends on where you live, because in Australia and India people call them cyclones, but in Japan they call them typhoons and in America they call them hurricanes, but they are all the same thing.
How does a Tropical Cyclone form? Tropical Cyclones form above warm water because that is where the wind and moist air combine, but when the wind and moist air have a fight it turns into a Cyclone. It’s much easier to form a Cyclone in the tropics because there is more moisture in the air. But a Cyclone will end when it hits land because there is no more moisture from the ocean to survive.
What are Categories? Categories are the levels for Cyclones for instance category 1 is a baby Cyclone it won’t really make much damage. Category 2 is okay it would probably mess up the house. Category 3 is more destructive it will most likely smash a window. Category 4 is destructive it can wreck ¾ of a house. Category 5 is the most destructive and dangerous Cyclone, it will kill or wreck anything that gets in its way.
The History of Cyclones? There has been thousands of Cyclones since earth started, for example: Cyclone Tracy was Australia’s worst Cyclone ever. It was on Christmas Eve in Darwin, in 1974. On Christmas Day the town was wrecked thousands of lives were lost. Christmas Day was a miserable and terrible day for them; it was a Category-4/5.
Cyclone Ingrid developed in the Coral Sea on the 3rd of March 2005 in the Northern Australia, it ended on the 9th of March and also destroyed some parts of Papua New Guinea as well; it was a Category 3/4
Cyclone Yasi has been Australia’s latest Cyclone. It came on the 3rd of February 2011, it started in Fiji on the 29th of January and made its way to Queensland on the 3rd of February and destroyed thousands of homes; it started at 5 but when it hit land it was about 3 and when it got to L.A. it went down to 1.
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THIS IS OUR PLAN OF THE DESIGN OF THE FIRE RESISTAINT CLOTHES. There are more images in my folder Lilly B l4c in UOI
Lilly B's Information report.
Bushfires
How fires operate
Depending on the weather, fires can spread more easily. Winds and low humidity increase chances of spreading. Winds can carry burning embers that start new fires, known as sport fires. Because fires and unpredictable and change very rapidly there is a thing called the fire triangle. The fire tri-angle is the three things needed to start a fire. A fire needs fuel such as trees, oxygen from air and heat.
How we fight fires
Fire fighters use a variety of equipment to control fires; the equipment could be anything, from backpack water sprayers to helicopters. Many places use different things like fire prevention items such as firebreaks. Equipment like sprayers put out spot fires, but large fires are attempted to be put out with large tankers, holding up to 4000 litres of water. Big fires are also put out by planes and helicopters bombing the fire with water, and occasionally chemicals are mixed with water to help slow down the fire.
Fires cause a lot of damage to human and animal communities. Surprisingly there benefits too, but there are a lot of bad things that fires cause, such as:
Breathing difficulties
Destroyed buildings, homes, farms and more
Fires can cost a lot of money. A big fire storm kills huge amounts of vegetation and wildlife living there. Some of these will not recover. Many animals die in fires, either from the smoke or the heat. But the benefits of fires are:
Many Australian plants are adapted to fire, having seeds that only germinate to fire. Most areas will regerminate after a fire.
Tips and tricks
To protect your home from fire you can do a few things like:
Move flammable items away from your house, such as petrol containers.
Keep your lawns mowed
Take anything like leaves and sticks away from eaves gutters and decks.
Check all hoses and taps are working.
To protect yourself:
Try to wear clothes that cover as much skin as possible
Wear natural fibres’ such as cotton denim as it burns less easily.
Wear a hat
Drink plenty of water
TROPICAL CYCLONES!
Tropical cyclones are the most destructive storms in the world; they cause floods, loss of resources, dirty water, and wrecked buildings and most importantly loss of lives.
What is a Tropical Cyclone?
Tropical cyclones are made up from torrential rains and winds swirling around the centre of the cyclone, which is called the eye, at about 300km/h.
All cyclones have different names it just depends on where you live, because in Australia and India people call them cyclones, but in Japan they call them typhoons and in America they call them hurricanes, but they are all the same thing.
How does a Tropical Cyclone form?
Tropical Cyclones form above warm water because that is where the wind and moist air combine, but when the wind and moist air have a fight it turns into a Cyclone.
It’s much easier to form a Cyclone in the tropics because there is more moisture in the air.
But a Cyclone will end when it hits land because there is no more moisture from the ocean to survive.
What are Categories?
Categories are the levels for Cyclones for instance category 1 is a baby Cyclone it won’t really make much damage. Category 2 is okay it would probably mess up the house. Category 3 is more destructive it will most likely smash a window. Category 4 is destructive it can wreck ¾ of a house. Category 5 is the most destructive and dangerous Cyclone, it will kill or wreck anything that gets in its way.
The History of Cyclones?
There has been thousands of Cyclones since earth started, for example: Cyclone Tracy was Australia’s worst Cyclone ever. It was on Christmas Eve in Darwin, in 1974. On Christmas Day the town was wrecked thousands of lives were lost. Christmas Day was a miserable and terrible day for them; it was a Category-4/5.
Cyclone Ingrid developed in the Coral Sea on the 3rd of March 2005 in the Northern Australia, it ended on the 9th of March and also destroyed some parts of Papua New Guinea as well; it was a Category 3/4
Cyclone Yasi has been Australia’s latest Cyclone. It came on the 3rd of February 2011, it started in Fiji on the 29th of January and made its way to Queensland on the 3rd of February and destroyed thousands of homes; it started at 5 but when it hit land it was about 3 and when it got to L.A. it went down to 1.
By Lily Toussaint